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Switching environments (to a machine with Cygwin), I got errors like this from pdflatex:

kpathsea: Running mktextfm ptmr8t
/usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation  for ptmr8t.
/usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr8t
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2013/Cygwin)


kpathsea: Running mktexmf ptmr8t
! I can't find file `ptmr8t'.
<*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr8t

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr8t

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: ptmr8t.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr8t' failed to make ptmr8t.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font T1/ptm/m/n/12=ptmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found
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<to be read again>

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It means you have a missing font (! Font T1/ptm/m/n/12=ptmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found).

According to this site, the package for Ubuntu is texlive-fonts-recommended. For Cygwin, the package is texlive-collection-fontsrecommended (use the standard Cygwin installer).

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    Fixed it for cygwin too.
    – user4417
    Nov 30, 2015 at 22:32
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    for those using nixpkgs under nix shell, the attribute is collection-fontsrecommended under texlive
    – Alex Xiong
    Sep 22, 2022 at 8:02
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For people using BasicTeX, run:

sudo tlmgr install collection-fontsrecommended
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I also had this error with CentOS7.9:

kpathsea: Running mktexmf cmr10
! I can't find file `cmr10'.

Solution: the packages has similar name:

yum install texlive-collection-fontsrecommended
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